Hospital Rape Case To Begin
14-Year-Old Attacked While Volunteering At Hospital
POSTED: 8:05 am EDT July 6, 2010
UPDATED: 8:10 am EDT July 6, 2010
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BOSTON -- Jury selection begins Tuesday in the case of a man accused of raping a 14-year-old girl at a Jamaica Plain hospital where she was a volunteer.Police said Vernon Thompson, 40, attacked the girl at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in July 2008. Thompson was a resident at the hospital.He allegedly led the victim to an area of the hospital where there were no security cameras before he raped her.A staff member happened along a short time afterward and observed the two together, police said.
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